উইকিভ্রমণ:পর্যটন দপ্তর

পর্যটন দপ্তরে স্বাগতম উইকিভ্রমণ পর্যটন দপ্তর হলো এমন একটি স্থান, যেখানে বিশ্বের যেকোনো স্থান সম্পর্কে আপনি ভ্রমণসংক্রান্ত যেকোনো প্রশ্ন করতে পারেন। উইকিভ্রমণের স্বেচ্ছাসেবীরা প্রাসঙ্গিক তথ্য সরবরাহ করতে আপনাকে যথাসাধ্য সহযোগিতা করবে (অথবা তাদের সেরা বিশেষজ্ঞদের দ্বারা খোঁজ নেবে) এবং আপনাকে তা অবগত করবে। এখানে আপনার প্রশ্ন জিজ্ঞাসা করার পূর্বে, নিশ্চিত হয়ে নিতে পারেন যে আপনার গন্তব্যস্থল বা ভ্রমণ বিষয়টি আমাদের ভ্রমণনির্দেশিকায় অনুসন্ধান করেছেন কিনা। আমাদের নির্দেশকরা (গাইড) ইতোমধ্যে অনেক প্রশ্নের উত্তর দিয়েছেন! এছাড়াও, আমাদের কিছু গন্তব্যস্থলের নির্দেশক রয়েছে, যেখানে কোনো নির্দিষ্ট স্থান সম্পর্কে প্রশ্নের উত্তর দেওয়ার স্বেচ্ছাসেবী রয়েছে। যদি এগুলোর কোনোটি আপনার জিজ্ঞাসার সমাধানে কাজে না আসে, তবে অনুগ্রহ করে এখনই জানান! এই পৃষ্ঠাটি কেবল ভ্রমণ সম্পর্কিত প্রশ্নের জন্য। উইকিভ্রমণে কীভাবে অবদান রাখতে হবে সে সম্পর্কিত তথ্য সাহায্য:বিষয়বস্তু পাতায় রয়েছে, অন্যদিকে উইকিভ্রমণ সম্পর্কিত প্রশ্ন ভ্রমণপিপাসুর আড্ডা পাতায় করা যেতে পারে। ভ্রমণ-বহির্ভূত বিষয়ে সাধারণ তথ্য সম্পর্কিত প্রশ্ন তথ্যকেন্দ্রে করা যেতে পারে; স্পর্শকাতরভাবে ভ্রমণের সাথে জড়িত কিছু বিষয় অন্তর্ভুক্ত: মানবিক তথ্যকেন্দ্র, যা ভূ-রাজনীতি, সংস্কৃতি এবং মানব ভূগোল বিষয়ে মতামত প্রকাশ করে। বিজ্ঞান তথ্যকেন্দ্র, যা প্রাকৃতিক প্রক্রিয়া, শারীরিক ভূগোল এবং প্রকৌশল (যানবাহন, পরিবহন নকশা ইত্যাদি) বিষয়ে মতামত প্রকাশ করেখ। দয়াকরে লক্ষ্য রাখুন যে আমরা কোনও প্রতিক্রিয়ার নিশ্চয়তা দিতে পারি না এবং ভুল বা পুরানো তথ্যের জন্য দায়বদ্ধ থাকছি না। ইতোমধ্যে যে প্রশ্নগুলির উত্তর দেওয়া হয়েছে সেগুলি দুই সপ্তাহের নিষ্ক্রিয়তার পরে সংগ্রহশালায় স্থানান্তরিত হবে। দ্রুত উত্তর চান? কীভাবে আমি আমার প্রশ্নের উত্তর পেতে পারি? আপনি কী জানতে চান পরিষ্কারভাবে ব্যাখ্যা করুন। একটি সংক্ষিপ্ত শিরোনাম দিন, যা আপনার প্রশ্নের সাধারণ বিষয় সম্পর্কে ধারণা প্রদান করে। বিশ্বের কোন অংশের জন্য আপনার প্রশ্ন প্রযোজ্য তা আমাদের অবগত করুন। ব্যক্তিগত যোগাযোগের তথ্য পোস্ট করবেন না – যা মুছে ফেলা হতে পারে। আমরা এখানে কয়েকদিনের মধ্যেই উত্তর প্রদানের চেষ্টা রাখবো।

বাংলা উইকিভ্রমণে "Understand" এর অনুবাদ

বাংলা উইকিভ্রমণে "Understand" এর অনুবাদ হিসেবে কোন শব্দ ব্যবহার করা উচিত? --Sajibur (আলাপ) ১৪:০৮, ৯ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

Sajibur: "জানুন"। --আফতাব (আলাপ) ২১:৪৮, ৯ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

ধন্যবাদ আফতাবুজ্জামান: ভাই--Sajibur (আলাপ) ১৭:১৫, ১৩ জুলাই ২০১৮ (ইউটিসি)

ভ্রমণ

ঢাকা থেকে বিরিশিরি (নেত্রকোনা) কিভাবে যাবে? — 120.50.14.18 (আলাপ • অবদান) ০৩:০৪, ৭ জুলাই ২০১৯‎ (ইউটিসি) এই স্বাক্ষরবিহীন মন্তব্যটি যোগ করেছেন।

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots workshops: Understanding community needs

Greetings, as you may be aware that as part of Small wiki toolkits - South Asia, we conduct a workshop every month on technical topics to help small wikis. In February, we are planning on organizing a workshop on the topic of bots. Bots are automated tools that carry out repetitive, tedious and mundane tasks. To help us structure the workshop, we would like understand the needs of the community in this regard. Please let us know any of

• a) repetitive/mundane tasks that you generally do, especially for maintenance
• b) tasks you think can be automated on your wiki.

Please let us your inputs on workshops talk page, before 7 February 2021. You can also let me know your inputs by emailing me or pinging me here in this section. Please note that you do not need to have any programming knowledge for this workshop or to give input. Regards, KCVelaga ১৩:৪৫, ২৮ জানুয়ারি ২০২১ (ইউটিসি)

Call for feedback: WMF Community Board seats & Office hours tomorrow

(sorry for posting in English)

Dear Wikimedians,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. Below you will find the problem statement and various ideas from the Board to address it. We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.

During this call for feedback we publish weekly reports and we draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.

Participate in this call for feedback and help us form a more diverse and better performing Board of Trustees!

Problems: While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. This problem was identified in the Board’s 2019 governance review, along with recommendations for how to address it.

To solve the problem of capacity, we have agreed to increase the Board size to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10). Regarding performance and diversity, we have approved criteria to evaluate new Board candidates. What is missing is a process to promote community candidates that represent the diversity of our movement and have the skills and experience to perform well on the Board of a complex global organization.

Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. Meanwhile, our movement has grown larger and more complex, our technical and strategic needs have increased, and we have new and more difficult policy challenges around the globe. As well, our Movement Strategy recommendations urge us to increase our diversity and promote perspectives from other regions and other social backgrounds.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. What process can we all design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

Ideas: The Board has discussed several ideas to overcome the problems mentioned above. Some of these ideas could be taken and combined, and some discarded. Other ideas coming from the call for feedback could be considered as well. The ideas are:

• Ranked voting system. Complete the move to a single transferable vote system, already used to appoint affiliate-selected seats, which is designed to best capture voters’ preferences.
• Quotas. Explore the possibility of introducing quotas to ensure certain types of diversity in the Board (details about these quotas to be discussed in this call for feedback).
• Call for types of skills and experiences. When the Board makes a new call for candidates, they would specify types of skills and experiences especially sought.
• Vetting of candidates. Potential candidates would be assessed using the Trustee Evaluation Form and would be confirmed or not as eligible candidates.
• Board-delegated selection committee. The community would nominate candidates that this committee would assess and rank using the Trustee Evaluation Form. This committee would have community elected members and Board appointed members.
• Community-elected selection committee. The community would directly elect the committee members. The committee would assess and rank candidates using the Trustee Evaluation Form.
• Election of confirmed candidates. The community would vote for community nominated candidates that have been assessed and ranked using the Trustee Evaluation Form. The Board would appoint the most voted candidates.
• Direct appointment of confirmed candidates. After the selection committee produces a ranked list of community nominated candidates, the Board would appoint the top-ranked candidates directly.

Call for feedback: The call for feedback runs from February 1 until the end of March 14. We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others. We want to hear from those who understand Wikimedia governance well and are already active in movement conversations. We also want to hear from people who do not usually contribute to discussions. Especially those who are active in their own roles, topics, languages or regions, but usually not in, say, a call for feedback on Meta.

You can participate by joining the Telegram chat group, and giving feedback on any of the talk pages on Meta-Wiki. We are welcoming the organisation of conversations in any language and in any channel. If you want us to organize a conversation or a meeting for your wiki project or your affiliate, please write to me. I will also reach out to communities and affiliates to soon have focused group discussions.

An office hour is also happening tomorrow at 12 pm (UTC) to discuss this topic. Access link will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled time (please watch the office hour page for the link, and I will also share on mailing lists). In case you are not able to make it, please don't worry, there will be more discussions and meetings in the next few weeks.

Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) ১৬:৩০, ১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২১ (ইউটিসি)

[Small wiki toolkits] Bot workshop: 27 February

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the second workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "bots", and we will be learning how to perform tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot community, learning resources and community venues. Please note that you do not need any technical experience to attend the workshop, only some experience contributing to Wikimedia projects is enough.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 February
• Timings: 15:30 to 17:00 (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BDT)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci | click to add your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/yYg.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ১০:১১, ১৮ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২১ (ইউটিসি)

WMF Community Board seats: Upcoming panel discussions

As a result of the first three weeks of the call for feedback on WMF Community Board seats, three topics turned out to be the focus of the discussion. Additionally, a new idea has been introduced by a community member recently: Candidates resources. We would like to pursue these focus topics and the new idea appropriately, discussing them in depth and collecting new ideas and fresh approaches by running four panels in the next week. Every panel includes four members from the movement covering many regions, backgrounds and experiences, along with a trustee of the Board. Every panel will last 45 minutes, followed by a 45-minute open mic discussion, where everyone’s free to ask questions or to contribute to the further development of the panel's topics.

• Skills for Board work - Friday, March 12, 18:00 UTC
• Support for candidates - Saturday, March 13, 13:30 UTC
• Board - Global Council - Hubs - Saturday, March 13, 16:00 UTC
• Regional diversity - Sunday, March 14, 13:00 UTC

To counter spamming, the meeting link will be updated on the Meta-Wiki pages and also on the Telegram announcements channel, 15 minutes before the official start.

Let me know if you have any questions, KCVelaga (WMF), ০৮:৩৬, ১০ মার্চ ২০২১ (ইউটিসি)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Debugging/fixing template errors" - 27 March

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the third workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "Debugging/fixing template errors", and we will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.).

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 March
• Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj | click here to add this to your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Jay Prakash

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/36Sg.

prepare for the workshop in advance, we would like to gather all kinds of template errors (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.) that you face while working with templates on your wiki. If you plan to attend the workshop and would like your common issues related to dealing with templates addressed, share your issues using this Google Form, or under this section on the workshop's talk page. You can see examples of such errors at this category.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ০৭:০১, ১৬ মার্চ ২০২১ (ইউটিসি)